It goes into other things through its pages, but "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman is on my top 20 list for the last 25 years, and certainly on my top 100 all-time.
Re:The explanation is obvious
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Much of the time advantage of rail over plane is lost with the "Please be at the airport at least 2 hours before your flight" requirements.
Actually, no. While the dollar's weakness is part of it, the dollar has remained mostly stable over the last couple months while oil's price has kept on rising.
Seriously, the majority of modern medicine is a series of trade-offs of lesser evils. To give a man antibiotics is to disrupt his helpful bacteria, leaving him more prone to yeast infections. You can take the Hippocratic oath and still perform amputations if need be. Yes, this harms the patient as well, but the idea is least harm. More often than anyone is comfortable with, abortion and euthanasia come as a lesser harm.
We don't life in a black and white world. Get over it.
Pushing nuclear energy has relatively very little do with our dependence on gasoline via crude oil. Please lets not confuse the two. There is no chance that there will be cars powered by "under the hood" nuclear reactors in the near future. Wind power will also do nothing for our dependence on oil for gasoline.
Except Honda just put out a proof of concept production line for hydrogen-powered cars yesterday. If oil continues its recent trend of price increases, you'll see a lot more of these real soon, and we need something to power the fuel cells with.
And high oil prices will in turn decrease consumption, which will save the planet! The neocons are actually trying to save us from ourselves, you see. It all becomes so clear now!
But I don't know how biased or unbiased dpreview may be. And I certainly don't want to track down all possible biases or conflicts of interests for each different specialized product review site I look at. Sure, do I go elsewhere for some things? Of course. But to have one trusted catch-almost-all place to look is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Yes, but as you say, letters and numbers are getting trivial, so we will need captchas outside of that. "Click the pictures with people out of the following set of 20 pictures" could have been a useful method.
Exactly. In fact, some of the offending explosives sprayed undetectably into several check-in lines in the late-adopting airports would soon infect 20% of the entire luggage-transporting infrastructure. Sure, terrorists could never get it all off themselves, but then neither could anyone else.
Because currently health information of regular people is not accessable for research or analysis. If I had a range of odd, undiagnosed symptoms, I would want to share that and be able to read others' accounts of similar symptoms. The fact that there are probably 500 people in this country sharing some rare ailment means none of them will ever find a doctor who knows anything about it. If just 10 of them didn't care about their own privacy as much as getting their problem fixed, they could compare notes and get better treatment.
Right now to do large scale medical studies, researches have to pay $100's per person involved. There will never be million-person studies on diseases that affect 0.1% of the population. Even accounting for the inaccuracies of self-reporting, the amount of medical discovery from such a database would rival germ theory's discovery.
And this can take only volunteers and still be fabulously useful.
Google's stated purpose is to "catalog the world's information." Health statistics are a lot of data that is possibly in the least searchable format imaginable: legally sealed handwritten charts. By in large, doctors have no access to population-scale data, and have to spend amazing amounts of money to find information on that scale. This is extremely valuable, and some people's privacy is less important to them then a cure for a seemingly random series of symptoms.
...Which makes you wonder if they wanted it to Streisand. When was the last time you think they got so many non-Mormons reading about them. Another poster said it is rather innocuous. On the heels of the FLDS blowup, I think lots of people reading stuff that shows your church in a good light is a great plan.
That said, a good teacher can devise interesting problems that take the requisite skills to solve. This takes an inordinate amount of effort and creativity on the part of the teacher, and there lies the problem.
Here you've skimmed over one of the major errors in our education system. Pretty much, each teacher tries to reinvent the wheel to create interesting problems and ways to illustrate the information. We get a lot of great teachers, but there's no system for them to pass on their better ideas to others. So they retire, and some kid who's watched maybe a semester's worth of one other teacher teach takes over. It's like if Linux users all coded their own kernels.
I've read that some other countries do a better job of this, but I don't recall where or how. Anyone know? I think some major investment here could make a huge difference.
"Quit being naive, people. You can't just always send balding actors."
Don't be silly. Patrick Stewart would always be enough.
Re:History of Gaming?
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"Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas" By Tom Robbins (his much better "Only Cowgirls Get the Blues" was turned into a bad Uma Thurman movie) is an interesting 2nd person novel, if you're into pseudo-philosophical ramblings (i.e., read in high school).
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Naw, the cow bell is being saved for its own Cow Bell Hero project.
It goes into other things through its pages, but "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman is on my top 20 list for the last 25 years, and certainly on my top 100 all-time.
Much of the time advantage of rail over plane is lost with the "Please be at the airport at least 2 hours before your flight" requirements.
Actually, no. While the dollar's weakness is part of it, the dollar has remained mostly stable over the last couple months while oil's price has kept on rising.
Seriously, the majority of modern medicine is a series of trade-offs of lesser evils. To give a man antibiotics is to disrupt his helpful bacteria, leaving him more prone to yeast infections. You can take the Hippocratic oath and still perform amputations if need be. Yes, this harms the patient as well, but the idea is least harm. More often than anyone is comfortable with, abortion and euthanasia come as a lesser harm.
We don't life in a black and white world. Get over it.
Remind me again what the difference is, when the market research is being done by the methods described in the article?
You mean me? Thanks a lot, buddy.
Or the hotel (in what, Kansas?) where these hanging levels were supposed to be supported by one long rod that someone changed to two rods in series?
Or that Airplane going to Hawaii where the top blew off yet only one person died?
Good times...
Yes, so the ethical line ends at "pay the damages of a broken contract."
Just the fax, ma'am. Just the fax.
And high oil prices will in turn decrease consumption, which will save the planet! The neocons are actually trying to save us from ourselves, you see. It all becomes so clear now!
But I don't know how biased or unbiased dpreview may be. And I certainly don't want to track down all possible biases or conflicts of interests for each different specialized product review site I look at. Sure, do I go elsewhere for some things? Of course. But to have one trusted catch-almost-all place to look is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Yes, but as you say, letters and numbers are getting trivial, so we will need captchas outside of that. "Click the pictures with people out of the following set of 20 pictures" could have been a useful method.
Sorry! I think you'll find I already patented this.
Exactly. In fact, some of the offending explosives sprayed undetectably into several check-in lines in the late-adopting airports would soon infect 20% of the entire luggage-transporting infrastructure. Sure, terrorists could never get it all off themselves, but then neither could anyone else.
Because currently health information of regular people is not accessable for research or analysis. If I had a range of odd, undiagnosed symptoms, I would want to share that and be able to read others' accounts of similar symptoms. The fact that there are probably 500 people in this country sharing some rare ailment means none of them will ever find a doctor who knows anything about it. If just 10 of them didn't care about their own privacy as much as getting their problem fixed, they could compare notes and get better treatment.
Right now to do large scale medical studies, researches have to pay $100's per person involved. There will never be million-person studies on diseases that affect 0.1% of the population. Even accounting for the inaccuracies of self-reporting, the amount of medical discovery from such a database would rival germ theory's discovery.
And this can take only volunteers and still be fabulously useful.
Most cats I know come when called. You just have to understand their real names are all the sound a can opening makes.
Google's stated purpose is to "catalog the world's information." Health statistics are a lot of data that is possibly in the least searchable format imaginable: legally sealed handwritten charts. By in large, doctors have no access to population-scale data, and have to spend amazing amounts of money to find information on that scale. This is extremely valuable, and some people's privacy is less important to them then a cure for a seemingly random series of symptoms.
Sorry, I got lost in the legalese there. Someone want to help?
Precisely my point. The LDS wants to distance themselves from the FLDS, and what better way than showing polygamy is wrong in their "secret" manual.
...Which makes you wonder if they wanted it to Streisand. When was the last time you think they got so many non-Mormons reading about them. Another poster said it is rather innocuous. On the heels of the FLDS blowup, I think lots of people reading stuff that shows your church in a good light is a great plan.
Well played, sirs.
Here you've skimmed over one of the major errors in our education system. Pretty much, each teacher tries to reinvent the wheel to create interesting problems and ways to illustrate the information. We get a lot of great teachers, but there's no system for them to pass on their better ideas to others. So they retire, and some kid who's watched maybe a semester's worth of one other teacher teach takes over. It's like if Linux users all coded their own kernels.
I've read that some other countries do a better job of this, but I don't recall where or how. Anyone know? I think some major investment here could make a huge difference.
"Quit being naive, people. You can't just always send balding actors."
Don't be silly. Patrick Stewart would always be enough.
"Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas" By Tom Robbins (his much better "Only Cowgirls Get the Blues" was turned into a bad Uma Thurman movie) is an interesting 2nd person novel, if you're into pseudo-philosophical ramblings (i.e., read in high school).